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How Old Will You Be (or Were You) on Your Wedding Day?

By the standards in my hometown, I was an “old” bride. Most of my friends there were married at 23 or 24. (I swear I heard someone mumble “careeer-driven cat lady” behind my back at our 10-year high school reunion. But that may have been the punch talking. Or the voices in my head.) Thankfully, back in New York, no one had written me off as a spinster by my 25th birthday.

How old will you be (or were you) on your wedding day? Were most of your friends married before you? Or were you the first to be a bride?